Judy Barden

Judy Barden
Born1911 (1911)
Died1996 (aged 84–85)
Occupationjournalist
Known forWarned American women that their husbands, sons and brothers morals were at risk from advances from German women
SpouseDavid M. Nichol (Chicago Daily News)

Judy Barden (1911-1996) was a journalist from the United Kingdom who lived and worked in the United States.

She worked as a war correspondent during World War II for the New York Sun and the North American Newspaper Alliance. On October 9, 1948, in Berlin she married David M. Nichol (Chicago Daily News), a journalist who also worked as a war correspondent and was posted to some of the same locations.

Together with Dixie Tighe she lobbied for permission to cover the Invasion of Normandy by parachute jumping with airborne troops. This opportunity had been offered to male war correspondents, most of whom declined. Barden and Tighe were turned down, being told that the jolt of the opening parachute could damage their reproductive organs.

Following Germany's defeat Barden wrote multiple articles warning that the occupying troops morals were at risk from sexual advances from beautiful, sexually available, German women.

Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson honored war correspondents, including Barden, at an event in Washington, on November 23, 1946.

References

  1. ↑ The U.S. social security administration shows the following names used by Judy Barden over time:
    • in Oct 1967: Name listed as JUDY FOSSEY BARDEN
    • in Nov 1976: Name listed as CONSTANCE MARJORIE NICHOL
    • in Oct 1996: Name listed as CONSTANCE M NICHOL
  2. 1 2 "Task of Occupation Declared in Peril – Patterson at Dinner Honoring War Correspondents Says More Appropriations Are Needed". The New York Times. 23 November 1946. p. 28. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Dateline: Germany" (PDF). March 1950. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  4. ↑ Marriage record from Ancestry.com.
  5. 1 2 Judy Barden (1950). Arthur Settel (ed.). "Candy Bar Romance — Women of Germany". This Is Germany. A Report on Post War Germany by 21 Newspaper Correspondents. ISBN 9780836924275. Retrieved 26 November 2020. {{cite news}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  6. ↑ Natasha Simpson (1 April 2020). "The "Woman's Angle" and Beyond: Allied Women War Reporters during the Second World War" (PDF). University of Victoria. pp. 18, 73. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020. However, when American women reporters Betty Gaskill and Dixie Tighe and Briton Judy Barden requested to go, Eisenhower's press aide informed them that 'the sharp jolt of the exploding parachute canopy' could damage their ''delicate female apparatus,'' causing vaginal bleeding.'
  7. ↑ Sabine Lee (2011). "A Forgotten Legacy of the Second World War: GI children in post-war Britain and Germany" (PDF). Contemporary European History. 20 (2): 157–181. doi:10.1017/S096077731100004X. Retrieved 26 November 2020. Journalist Judy Barden portrayed German women as sexual predators. With low-cut necklines and even lower morals, they were willing to trade 'candy bars and cigarettes for their souls.'
  8. ↑ Ann Elizabeth Pfau (2008). Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender and Domesticity During World War II (PDF). Columbia University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2020. Acknowledging the effects of fear and hunger, Barden nevertheless insisted that under similar circumstances American and British women would have behaved differently.
  9. ↑ Judy Barden (28 May 1945). "The Good (Looking) Germans". Newsweek magazine.